Update on the NoFollow Tag
MSN, too. Snippet: "Our job is to provide the most relevant and useful results to a users search query. Sounds easy. But, unfortunately theres a powerful financial incentive for a small subset of people to try to manipulate the results so their sites come up to the top – at the expense of our customers".
Hmmm.....wonder who they're talking about :). Yahoo joins in, too. Google outline their usage guidelines here.
I think this may be a move in the right direction, although while it removes some of the incentive, I'm not sure it will erradicate the problem. So long as there are blogs, guestbooks, etc that don't use the nofollow tag, then the army of bots will continue. It may work wonders over time, if the major blog tools integrate the code by default. May backfire it terms of link hoarding, however. Discussion at Threadwatch.
Hmmm.....wonder who they're talking about :). Yahoo joins in, too. Google outline their usage guidelines here.
I think this may be a move in the right direction, although while it removes some of the incentive, I'm not sure it will erradicate the problem. So long as there are blogs, guestbooks, etc that don't use the nofollow tag, then the army of bots will continue. It may work wonders over time, if the major blog tools integrate the code by default. May backfire it terms of link hoarding, however. Discussion at Threadwatch.
